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Yuss, best days for me have either been from being Bargain Bucket'd in deal of the week slot or from an RPS posting. Every time you think "there surely can't be many more people left who read RPS who haven't..." and then you get another post and off it goes all over again.

"Quantacat's name is still recognised even if he watches on with detached eyes like Peter Molyneux over a cube in 3D space, staring at it with tears in his eyes, softly whispering... Someday they'll get it." - The Conclave

It's also, contrary to what it's fairly easy to presume from comments sections, that RPS has a generally good audience. I don't mean that as in "good numbers" I mean that entirely in the "good people" sense.

It's why as weighty as it can be to drive through and read the same old bullshit repeatedly in comments sections, it's worth remembering that the comments sections make up a very, very, very tiny part of the RPS readership and are not necessarily representative of the views held and actions taken by RPS'ers in general. There's a pretty substantial amount of the readership who will take risks on games, who will buy off-Steam, who will support developers, who are just kind people, who will...

Occasionally, there's a nice statistic to back up that they'll spend money on things and isn't that great (it is great from a dev point of view, obviously!) but it's not just that they'll spend money or whatever, it is that they aren't arseholes.

RPS may not always get the comments section it deserves but from my experience, it certainly has enough of the readership it deserves.

It's also, contrary to what it's fairly easy to presume from comments sections, that RPS has a generally good audience. I don't mean that as in "good numbers" I mean that entirely in the "good people" sense.

It's why as weighty as it can be to drive through and read the same old bullshit repeatedly in comments sections, it's worth remembering that the comments sections make up a very, very, very tiny part of the RPS readership and are not necessarily representative of the views held and actions taken by RPS'ers in general. There's a pretty substantial amount of the readership who will take risks on games, who will buy off-Steam, who will support developers, who are just kind people, who will...

Occasionally, there's a nice statistic to back up that they'll spend money on things and isn't that great (it is great from a dev point of view, obviously!) but it's not just that they'll spend money or whatever, it is that they aren't arseholes.

RPS may not always get the comments section it deserves but from my experience, it certainly has enough of the readership it deserves.

Yeah, and RPS also gets "shared" by other major PC gaming outlets. So it's a cascading effect, really.

"Quantacat's name is still recognised even if he watches on with detached eyes like Peter Molyneux over a cube in 3D space, staring at it with tears in his eyes, softly whispering... Someday they'll get it." - The Conclave

Indie titles need all the exposure they can get, not only do they need to get exposure just to get greenlit on steam, after they get released on steam they need to be featured on the front page of steam with the word sale on them before any real interest is shown in that game.

Media and exposure creates the sales. Small indie teams especially have a problem since their personal combined network is pretty small.

He has raw data showing a huge spike in visits after an RPS mention. To quote the blog post: "Rock, Paper, Shotgun readers are officially my favorite online community because of this. It’s not that they all love Black Annex, it just shows that if they’re not interested, they won’t say “This sucks!” and slam the “No!” button, they’ll just move on to something else. That rules!"

Yuss, best days for me have either been from being Bargain Bucket'd in deal of the week slot or from an RPS posting. Every time you think "there surely can't be many more people left who read RPS who haven't..." and then you get another post and off it goes all over again.

Which reminds me. I really should getting around to trying one of your games Rob. So, there's at least one left. :)